Undergoing a pay review/restructuring at work (not because we want to save money, honest).
It’s been so badly handled and communicated that I thought HQAC might have been behind it.
They announced it on the 5th. I still don’t know where I sit in the new “job families” we’ve created, but if I took a guess at which level I’m at, my pay will be between £7k-£17k lower than colleagues at the same “level” in different families.
I already know I manage more people and work harder than some people we employ paid more than me already, and from the looks of it they’re going to get a pay rise whilst I’ll be stuck at the minimum for my band.
I’m sure there are a million cadets that you’ve had that would say they work harder than the cadets you’ve seen promoted. Yet most don’t leave. I know money is more important than rank in the ATC but surly you’re used to life being unfair and not to have a fit about it.
Oh I see, thanks! Yes good shout. Especially since they’re saying they will freeze the pay of anyone earning over the top of the band for up up 3 years and unfreeze it if it falls back in to line, or after 3 years you’ll lose your money. But we weren’t consulted about anything as “it’s not a contractual change”.
There’s a clear difference about not being promoted to Cdt Cpl at the Sqn, to being paid over £5k less than your peers.
The job market is at a very interesting stage, it’s hard to recruit, and easy to leave so employers need to look after their staff carefully, unless of course they want you to leave of your own choosing rather than going through a Performance Improvement Plan to fire someone.
You sound like one of those cadets. Did I not promote you?
And there is a difference between accepting life isn’t fair, and accepting being treated as sub standard. I could put up with it, sure, but I also could look to work for an organisation that values me and my work.
Comparing a hobby and promotion to my day to day employment is a little short sighted I’m afraid.
GMG. Although, at the same time, a first world problem.
Trying to “rescue” hobnobs out of the packet in my standard method: sliding my thumb between two biscuits with the required number of hobnobs atop the target biscuit*, then pushing them up the packet so as to avoid said packet ripping, and leaving enough empty packet for a tidy twist to stop them going stale.
Only when I jammed my thumb between the biscuits I received a searing pain in my thumb. An oat had worked itself loose punctured the packet and wedged itself under my thumb nail. There was pain. And blood. And I yelped and everything.
Then I angrily ate my hobnob which wasn’t nearly as satisfying.
*(Unless Mrs BF is reading, then please read “a biscuit was leveraged out of the packet”)
